Jeff Shear

Jeff Shear is the author of The Keys to the Kingdom, which was an investigation into a weapons deal between the US and Japan (the FSX), published by Doubleday. He’s been a Fellow at The Center for Public Integrity, in Washington, where he contributed to the book The Buying of the Congress, published by Avon. Before that he served as staff correspondent for National Journal, covering fiscal policy, with regular venues at the White House, Congress and Treasury. His magazine writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Rolling Stone and other national publications. He writes TV narrations for the National Geographic Channel, Discovery, and The History Channel. Currently, he's working on the Jackson Guild Books, a hybrid espionage series, about a Senate investigator Jackson Guild, who uncovers a terrorist plot to set off a nuclear weapon in the beating heart of Washington. But there's a twist. If Guild exposes the conspirators, he sets off a nuclear blow-by-blow. That plunges Guild into a lose-lose situation, and he’s got to dance along the razor’s edge between the Truth and its Consequences. When he has the nerve, Shear continues work about an American woman who spied for the British during World War II, which is being (occasionally) serialized on the History News Network, a project of the Ron Rosenzweig Center for History and the New Media at George Mason University.